When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
Alec BaldwinCheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
Alec BaldwinThere's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
Alec BaldwinSuccess begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
Alec BaldwinI was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.
Alec BaldwinI believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.
Alec BaldwinGreat acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.
Alec BaldwinI had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
Alec BaldwinI collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Alec BaldwinI feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
Alec BaldwinI think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
Alec BaldwinIf we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.
Alec BaldwinNew York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
Alec BaldwinOne generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.
Alec BaldwinYou have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.
Alec BaldwinWhen I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don't need to work and I'm married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.
Alec BaldwinI never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"
Alec BaldwinSoaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
Alec BaldwinBush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
Alec BaldwinI don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.
Alec BaldwinAll those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.
Alec BaldwinPaul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and fans ... an incredible solo performer ... the creator of our favorite songs.
Alec BaldwinI wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
Alec BaldwinI was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in direct competition with my brothers for anything, ever. Stephen and I and Billy and I are better at staying in touch with each other. Danny is married, he has a new baby and he is very peripatetic, he goes to golfing tournaments and charity things. He really travels a lot.
Alec BaldwinTo be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
Alec BaldwinEverybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
Alec BaldwinIf I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.
Alec BaldwinI don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
Alec BaldwinThere are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
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